Work, the haiku:
(Plus more Dilbert)

“Where are you on this?”
“I’m where JIRA says I am”
“Ok, but how far?”

Actual recent events with my boss:

Boss: Meetings are taking up so much of your time that you’re having trouble getting your work done?
Boss: are you sure you’re working enough hours? Like, absolutely sure?
Boss: Hmm…
Boss: Aha! Let’s have weekly one-on-ones to make sure you’re making enough progress. I’ll check in on you every Thursday, half an hour after standup.

Result: going from 7 meetings a week to 8, decreased time to work (by around an hour and a half due to meeting spacing and him ALWAYS being late), and, of course, increased stress.

@Root subtraction is hard.....

@Root Was he suggesting you work 12h shifts to make up for lost time in meetings? 🤔

@LordPeeve Probably.

@Root 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

A good alternative to the jira situation you described is:

“Why do you have two tickets in progress?”
“One is in pr, we don’t have a step for that.”
“But you can’t work on two things together”
“I just told you… well, I think I can? Work, stop working cause of an emergency, work on the emergency ticket, but the previous one is still in progress”
“But how can you code 3 features together?”
“I JUST FUCKING TOLD… listen, what if they make sense to be worked on together? You make the tickets arbitrarily, but sometimes it costs us less to do stuff together”

“But… you can’t focus on 3 things together”

Managers can’t focus on 3 things together I guess. Or really one.

@rEaL-jAsE ?

@Root good luck.